To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

How much finer things are in composition than alone.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

There is always a best way of doing everything.