If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.