–love rules the world and without it there can never be a thrill of joy that amounts to much.

–it is not necessary to be great–it is not necessary to be dandled in the lap of luxury.  The old lady’s lap is going out of date as a pleasure resort.

are twins, and that one cannot exist without the other.

and that happiness is one of them.  Many persons are happy and can not help it.

with whatever comes to pass.  Why cry over spilt milk?  It will avail nothing.  Dismiss trouble from your mind and resign yourself to whatever may present itself.

and they may assist you in your endeavors to be happier.  Learn to be what you are at all times and to all persons.

nine-tenths of the so-called big men who fill public offices, are traitors to conscience.  To be a successful politician, conscience must be stifled.  A man must pretend to be any and everything that his constituents are.  With him policy is everything and conscience nothing.

is happier than United States Senators and Representatives; their brains are aching from the burning anxiety that takes possession of them.

on the best terms with the inhabitants of palaces, with the faces familiar to kings, aristocrats and potentates.

of the so-called great persons of the world have been very unhappy–have many and many times sighed for obscurity–sighed until their artificial hearts almost broke for a more intimate acquaintance with common, every day nature.