A Man's Action Is Only A Picture

Almost All Human Affairs Are Tedious. Everything Is Too Long. Visits, Dinners, Concerts, Plays, Speeches, Pleadings, Essays, Sermons, Are Too Long. Pleasure And Business Labor Equally Under This Defect, Or, As I Should Rather Say, This Fatal Super-abundance.

Be Cheerful [and Grateful For The Good That You Have]: Do Not Brood Over Fond Hopes Unrealized Until A Chain Is Fastened On Each Thought And Wound Around The Heart. Nature Intended You To Be The Fountain-spring Of Cheerfulness And Social Life, And Not The Mountain Of Despair And Melancholy.

The Greatest Luxury Of Riches Is That They Enable You To Escape So Much Good Advice.

People Resemble Still More The Time In Which They Live, Than They Resemble Their Fathers.

Infinite Toil Would Not Enable You To Sweep Away A Mist; But By Ascending A Little You May Often Look Over It Altogether.