“When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.”

“Mankind are always happy for having happiness. So if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years from now by the memory of it. ”

“we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today”

“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence. ”

“Live always in the best company when you read.”

“I am glad you like what I said of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry (prison and mental hospital reformer). She is very unpopular with the clergy; examples of living, active virtue disturb our repose and give one to distressing comparisons; we long to burn her alive.”

“A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.”