33 quotes found
“A cheerful friend is like a sunny day which sheds its brightness on all around.”
“Most of us can as we choose make of this world either a palace or a prison.”
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
“To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.”
“A poor woman from Manchester on being taken to the seaside is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.”
“A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.”
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of t...”
“Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.”
“Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.”
“A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”
