Serious work gets done. . . in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?
Behold congenial Autumn comes, the Sabbath of the Year.
There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it? Something to do; some congenial work. Take away the occupation of all people and what a wretched world it would be.
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.
In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.
The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.
I think that the people that are publicly on Hillary Clinton's short list all are very congenial people. They're not people with personality or Captain Queeg problems.
And of course, FDR was very charming. At 6'2", he was tall enough to be her beau, and they made a beautiful couple. And she could encourage him. His mother also encouraged him. So this notion of a woman with ideas of her own and a spirit of her own and a style of her own was very congenial to Franklin. And he loved her. And their romance was a very dear and true and deep romance.
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.