Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.
Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.