"Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

"I hope that real love and affection are long-lived. I hope that real love and affection are not easily chilled by absence, or killed by separation."

"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour."

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery."

"I have always been of the opinion that it is better to be happy than to be rich, and that it is better to be good than to be great."