“The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.”

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Winter is the night of vegetation.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

Hope is the best part of our riches.

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.

In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

Rest is a productive activity.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

I think that in any group activity – whether it be business, sports, or family – there has to be leadership or it won’t be successful.

Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity?

Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values.

The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.