Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Make up your mind to be happy.
Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.
Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.