If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.