Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends.
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm.
After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.
If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.