What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.

The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

Politeness is practical Christianity.

God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.

Occupied people are not unhappy people.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

Truth is the root of all the charities.

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world.

Like a child, always enjoy the world.

Fortunately for children the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.

The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.

Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.