"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"

"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in par…"

"It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow, unless he sweats easier than I do."

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

"Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me."