It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.