It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

The best ideas are common property.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.