"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice."
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
"When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor."
"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."
"Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday."
"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
"The giving of love is an education in itself."
"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."
"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."
