Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.