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

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

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

Children are certainly too good to be true.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?