Discontent Is Want Of Self-reliance; It Is

It Seems As If The Day Was Not Wholly Profane In Which We Have Given Heed To Some Natural Object.

I Do Then With My Friends As I Do With My Books. I Would Have Them Where I Can Find Them, But I Seldom Use Them.

A Low Self-love In The Parent Desires That His Child Should Repeat His Character And Fortune.

Speak The Affirmative; Emphasize Your Choice By Utter Ignoring Of All That You Reject.

I Am Thankful For Small Mercies. I Compared Notes With One Of My Friends Who Expect Everything Of The Universe, And Is Disappointed When Anything Is Less Than The Best, And I Found That I Begin At The Other Extreme, Expecting Nothing, And Am Always Full Of Thanks For Moderate Good. . . . If We Will Take The Good We Find, . . . We Shall Have Heaping Measures. . . .