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

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for someone else."

"The older I grow, the more I dislike the cant of all kinds, and especially religious cant."

"He was a man of the world, in the worst sense of the term."

"I am a believer in Marley’s Ghost."