The Price Of Apparent Happiness And Enjoyment

True Resignation, Which Always Brings With It The Confidence That Unchangeable Goodness Will Make Even The Disappointment Of Our Hopes, And The Contradictions Of Life, Conducive To Some Benefit, Casts A Grave But Tranquil Light Over The Prospect Of Even A Toilsome And Troubled Life.

Results Are Nothing; The Energies Which Produce Them And Which Again Spring From Them Are Everything.

When We ... Devote Ourselves To The Strict And Unsparing Performance Of Duty, Ihen Happiness Comes Of Itself.

It Is Continued Temperance Which Sustains The Body For The Longest Period Of Time, And Which Most Surely Preserves It Free From Sickness.

Trees Have About Them Something Beautiful And Attractive Even To The Fancy, Since They Cannot Change Their Places, Are Witnesses Of All The Changes That Take Place Around Them; And As Some Reach A Great Age, They Become, As It Were, Historical Monuments, And Like Ourselves They Have A Life, Growing And Passing Away, --not Being Inanimate And Unvarying Like The Fields And Rivers. One Sees Them Passing Through Various Stages, And At Last Step By Step Approaching Death, Which Makes Them Look Still More Like Ourselves.