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.
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.