Every Happiness Is A Hostage To Fortune.

The Man Who Could Withstand, With His Fellow-men In Single Line, A Charge Of Cavalry May Lose All Command Of Himself On The Occurrence Of A Fire In His Own House, Because Of Some Homely Reminiscence Unknown To The Observing Bystander.

I Do Not Know Any Way So Sure Of Making Others Happy As Of Being So Oneself, To Begin With.

Some Persons, Instead Of Making A Religion For Their God, Are Content To Make A God Of Their Religion.

Nature Intended You To Be The Fountain-spring Of Cheerfulness And Social Life, And Not The Mountain Of Despair And Melancholy.

Keep Your Feet On The Ground, But Let Your Heart Soar As High As It Will. Refuse To Be Average Or To Surrender To The Chill Of Your Spiritual Environment.