Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.