Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.