 The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. |
| All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. |
| Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. |
| Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. |
| The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. |
| We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it. |
| Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. |
| We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. |
| It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. |
| There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. |
| There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may. |
| Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. |
| Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. |
| Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. |
| It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. |
| The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. |
| Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. |
| You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. |
| Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. |
| Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. |
