The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

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

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.