It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;— it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.

Even if you put a snake in a bamboo tube, you cannot change its wriggling disposition.

Good temper is an estate for life.

Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.

Good-humor makes all things tolerable.

You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with.

Good temper oils the wheels of life.

A sweet temper is to the household what sunshine is to trees and flowers.

The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.

... the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.