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

Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

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.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy it. Moreover, this great inheritance has the additional advantage that it entails no labor, requires no management. The landlord has the trouble, but the landscape belongs to everyone who has eyes to see it.