Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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 favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
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.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
So long as we love, we serve 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.
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.
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 forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.