"I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have some…" — John Burroughs

All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Source: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Memory is the diary that we all carry around with us

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Source: Walden (1854)

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

Source: Walden (1854)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body

Source: The Tatler, no. 147 (1710)

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