“A happy family is but an earlier heaven”
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“A happy family is but an earlier heaven”
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet”
“Choose the life that is most useful and habit will make it the most agreeable”
“He that can have patience can have what he will”
“Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you”
“Property is the fruit of labor - property is desirable - it is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise”
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
“Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.”
“The greater the obstacle, the more the glory in overcoming it”
“The sweetest of all sounds is praise”
“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back ”
“Happiness is a virtue, not its reward ”
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it”
“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something”
“Love is often the fruit of marriage ”
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph ”
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals ”
“Diligence is the mother of good fortune”
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young ”
“Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end ”