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.

Real happiness is not dependent on external things.

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

The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.