What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
The ways of heaven are dark and intricate;Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
… when I see kings lying by those who deposed them,… or holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in proper figures.
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man … courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
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.
Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments.
A man should always consider … how much more unhappy he might be than he is.
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.
The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power wise by his wisdom happy by his happiness.
If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live I shall leave it when I am summoned out of it with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.
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 select companions.
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.
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.
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.
If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.
A day an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
And pleas’d th’ Almighty’s orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
We are growing serious and let me tell you that’s a very next step to being dull.
If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.
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.
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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.
The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.