A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.

Here are the three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions.

To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.