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Happiness is the voice of optimism, of faith, of simple, steadfast love.

The basis of happiness is the love of something outside self.

Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.

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.

Unclamp, in a word, your intellectual and practical machinery, and let it run free; and the service it will do you will be twice as good.

Take no thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Throw away, in the first place, all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well.

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.

The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.

His capacity for work was prodigious, and when his own work happened to take less than his full time he characteristically found activity in serving a scientist or exercising an animal.

In the realm of time there is no aristocracy of wealth, and no aristocracy of intellect.

The secret of calm cheerfulness is kindliness; no person can be consistently cheerful and calm who does not consistently think kind thoughts.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.