If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Wine is bottled poetry.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
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?
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.