It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

Make up your mind to be happy.

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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.