If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.