That which is injurious loses its capacity to harm when it is brought into the light, and we attract to us that which we emanate.
People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.
Circumstances alter cases.
Punctuality is the sole of business.
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.
The way to develop the habit of savoring is to pause when something is beautiful and good and catches our attention - the sound of rain, the look of the night sky - the glow in a child's eyes, or when we witness some kindness. Pause. . . then totally immerse in the experience of savoring it.
Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.