The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.
If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.