Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.
You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.
The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.
Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.