Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.