Congenial Labor Is The Secret Of Happiness.

I Am Sure It Is One's Duty As A Teacher To Try To Show Boys That No Opinions, No Tastes, No Emotions Are Worth Much Unless They Are One's Own. I Suffered Acutely As A Boy From The Lack Of Being Shown This.

Ambition Often Puts Men Upon Doing The Meanest Offices; So Climbing Is Performed In The Same Position With Creeping.

The Worst Sorrows In Life Are Not In Its Losses And Misfortunes, But Its Fears.

I Have Known Some Quite Good People Who Were Unhappy, But Never An Interested Person Who Was Unhappy.

I Never Enter A New Company Without The Hope That I May Discover A Friend, Perhaps The Friend, Sitting There With An Expectant Smile. That Hope Survives A Thousand Disappointments.