Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.
Go forward with joyful confidence.
I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.
... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.
It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.
Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.