If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally & impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it.

That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.

People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably -why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work -for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.