A friend is a present you give yourself.

A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for? " he asked. "I am weeping for my sins, " said the lad. "You must have little to do, " said the man. The next day, they met again. ...

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the s ...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel o ...