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

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

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

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.