“Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.”

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward.

Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun and the Truth.

You can get around to meaningful conversations more quickly in the dark than with the sun tickling your face.