“No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.”

“A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.”

“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”

“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”

“Consequently, we should try as much as possible to maintain a high degree of health; for cheerfulness is the very flower of it.”

“I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.”

“A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.”