Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.
Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.