The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

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

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

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.