“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.”
“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”
“Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.”
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
“Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?”