The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Everyone lives by selling something.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

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