The best evidence of our having the truth is our walking in the truth.
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.
I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.
I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now, I never play leading men. I'm that kamikaze comic that comes from the left, turns the table over, and leaves, or the hyper-intelligent yuppie scumbag if it's a drama.
What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.