Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

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.

Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.