Happiness Consists Not In Having

None Speak Of The Bravery, The Might, Or The Intellect Of Jesus; But The Devil Is Always Imagined As A Being Of Acute Intellect, Political Cunning, And The Fiercest Courage. These Universal And Instinctive Tendencies Of The Human Mind Reveal Much.

To Everything There Is A Bright Side And A Dark Side; And I Hold It To Be Unwise, Unphilosophic, Unkind To Others, And Unhealthy For One's Own Soul, To Form The Habit Of Looking On The Dark Side. Cheerfulness Is To The Spiritual Atmosphere What Sunshine Is To The Earthly Landscape. I Am Resolved To Cherish Cheerfulness With Might And Main.

Misfortune Is Never Mournful To The Soul That Accepts It; For Such Do Always See That Every Cloud Is An Angel's Face. Every Man Deems That He Has Precisely The Trials And Temptations Which Are The Hardest Of All Others For Him To Bear; But They Are So, Simply Because They Are The Very Ones He Most Needs.

Genius Hath Electric Power; Which Earth Can Never Tame; Bright Suns May Scorch And Dark Clouds Lower; Its Flash Is Still The Same.

Affectation Is Fond Of Making A Greater Show Than Reality. ... Nature And Truth Have Never Learned To Blow The Trumpet, And Never Will.