Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.