 Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life. |
| The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. |
| All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. |
| It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. |
| It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face. |
| You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. |
| The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. |
| There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. |
| So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. |
| Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. |
| You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else. |
| To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. |
| The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. |
| Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. |
| You can kill the body but not the spirit. |
| I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something. |
| You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? |
| To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. |
| Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? |
| Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. |
