A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo good. If there is ferment so much the better. If there is restlessness I am pleased. Then let there be ideas and hard thought and hard work. If man feels small let man make himself bigger.

The person be it gentleman or lady who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.

Get correct views of life and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly to do good and when summoned away to leave without regret.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant but basically if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed but fine up against a wall.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.