Be contented, when you have got all you want.

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.