When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.
Some men have only one book in them, others a library.
Hope is the belief, more or less strong, that joy will come.
Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.