There is but one art, to omit.

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

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