1. “Time is a trust and for every minute of it you will have to account.”
2. “A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.”
3. “Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.”
4. “Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.”
5. “A kind word will give more pleasure than a present.”
6. “Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.”
7. “Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.”
8. “To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.”
9. “To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.”
10. “Happiness is a condition of mind not a results of circumstances.”
11. “A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”
12. “We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.”
13. “What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”
14. “Many a blessing has been recognized too late.”
15. “Rest is by no means a waste of time.”
16. “A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.”
17. “Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.”
18. “The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.”
19. “Do what you will, only do something.”
20. “Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.”
21. “Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.”
22. “Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them.”
23. “Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.”
24. “How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.”
25. “There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.”
