False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

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.

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.

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

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

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