I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.
A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing! Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!
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.
Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
So possible is it for us to roll ourselves up in wickedness, till we grow invulnerable by conscience; and that sentinel, once dozed, sleeps fast, not to be awakened while the tide of pleasure continues to flow or till something dark and dreadful brings us to ourselves again.
Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.