An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

• We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
• All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
• At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
• We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
• An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
• Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
• Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
• Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.
• All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
• When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.