No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Interpretation
Investing in home and family brings the greatest joy and satisfaction.
This quote emphasizes the importance of spending money on things that promote happiness and comfort within the home. It suggests that the value derived from domestic satisfaction, such as nurturing family relationships and creating a joyful home environment, far outweighs any other financial expenditure.
In practice
This quote could be used in a family meeting to encourage discussions about budgeting for experiences that enhance family joy.
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
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Everyone contributes a word, a sentence, an image, but in the end it all makes sense: the happiness of one becomes the joy of all.
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Have the depth of faith to regard everything as a source for creating happiness and value.
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