We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.

An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one, but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged, we cannot be discouraged.

They think that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors, and they do not know that it is in the soul that things always happen, and that the world does not end at their housedoor.

The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.