Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

I will not talk of my own happiness, ' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

One should marry when one stops having a good time and settle down.

Most probably your belief system is screwed up. And so were your ancestors, before you. And now, maybe so are you. Overcome it, you!

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do.

It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www.cia.gov and click "Apply Now." For me it was much more clandestine.

People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system.

Save what you can toward the emergency and life happens fund. But don't worry yourself sick at the slow growth. The point is it's growing even it's just one dollar at at time.

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.