They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
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.
If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition, and let him remember that hundreds of millions of men, women, and children have been sacrificed to placate the wrath, or win the approbation of this god.
If you wish to be a writer, write.
I work even in the middle of the day, in the full sunshine, and I enjoy it like a cicada.
I understand the chairman of the Senate Ethics comittee is going to examine the check-bouncing scandal with a microscope. . . . makes sense. . . If you're going to look at ethics in Congress, a microscope is what you need.