Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.

Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.

Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?

Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pea, in the silence of your own leisure and study, would be born with far more beauty.