The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

In the end, we live to serve the Saviour, who saved us from all slavery in the flesh. And make us awake in a new life of the spirit of Christ Jesus.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.

It was Heraclitus' ideas that seized Nietzsche so totally that he became completely mad.

There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty.