“Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity”

“Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides”

“Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man”

“One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well”

“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world”

“The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas”