Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.