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

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.

How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

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

Do what you will, only do something.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.