Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. – Edward Everett Hale
He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes. – Barrow
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid. – Gaston Bachelard
Yet this is health: To have a body functioning so perfectly that when its few simple needs are met it never calls attention to its own existence. – Bertha Stuart Dyment
