How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?