Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.