Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.
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.