As long as you live, learn how to live.
Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.
There is no cosmetic like happiness
Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.
Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the happiness of life depends. The great sacrifices are seldom called for, but the minor ones are in daily requisition; and the making them with cheerfulness and grace enhances their value.
Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind.