A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.