Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Everything is hard before it is easy.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

The happy do not believe in miracles.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.