A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.

Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, of the lack and loss of animal delights.

Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.