Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.
Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.
Grief never mended no broken bones.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
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