However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

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

Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.