Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.