Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.