An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

That though he is weak, he can still burn.

My dad has more sparkly stuff than most men.

I keep all of my letters, postcards, and thank you notes. I'll keep them forever!

Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time or he'll soon have no job to be on.

There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.

The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.