If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.