Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending

Quote by Samuel Butler

Topics: Happiness Quotes, Misery Quotes

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more...

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more...

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a...

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a...

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who...

Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who...

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in...

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in...

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my...

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my...

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No...

The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No...

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy...

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy...

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep...

My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is...

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is...

Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child

Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your...

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your...

Economized love is never real love

Economized love is never real love