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To disappoint a friend is unpleasing; and he that forms expectations like yours, must be disappointed.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings, because they are his own.

Work in moderation is healthy, as well as agreeable to the human constitution.

Not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient; for he that is so, wants nothing.

Where the mind is tinctured with philosophy, there is no place for grief, anxiety, or superfluous vexations.

Rest and recreation are also necessary to his physical life.

It asks a troublesome effort to ensure the admiration of others: it is a still greater one to be satisfied with one's own thoughts.

The love of life, then, is an habitual attachment, not an abstract principle.

There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern--why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

Friendships are frequently taken up on some sudden sympathy, and we see only as much as we please of one another's characters afterwards.

The pure men of old slept without dreams, and waked without anxiety.

The soul should take care of the body, just as a pilgrim on his way to Mecca takes care of his camel.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

You’ll never see a U-haul behind a hearse.

Do not admire your clothes, and then you will not be angry with the thief.

Have you anything better or greater to see than the sun, the moon, the stars, the whole earth, the sea?

Keep by every means what is your own; do not desire what belongs to others.

We find the fullness of life not only in options, but in commitments.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

My world is built of touch-sensations, devoid of physical colour and sound; but without colour and sound it breathes and throbs with life.

Whatever moves me, whatever thrills me, is as a hand that touches me in the dark, and that touch is my reality.

Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

My most sacred and memorable life is commonly on awaking in the morning.

If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information, and benevolence.

To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be.