We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.
I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.
words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.
In our road through life we may happen to meet with a man casting a stone reverentially to enlarge the cairn of another which stone he has carried in his bosom to sling against that very other's head.