89 quotes found
“We are growing serious and let me tell you that's a very next step to being dull.”
“Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice and inconstancy in pursuing them are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.”
“Should the whole frame of nature round him break,In ruin and confusion hurled,He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack,And stand secure amidst a falling world.”
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
“If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
“Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.”
“The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power wise by his wisdom happy by his happiness.”
“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.”
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.”
“True happiness ... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”
“A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.”
“True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversations of a few sel...”
“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.”
“True happiness... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”
“Young men soon give and soon forget affronts Old age is slow in both.”
“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.”
“What sunshine is to flowers smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles to be sure but scattered along life's pathway the good they do is inconceivable.”
“As vivacity is the gift of women gravity is that of men.”
“Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below.”
