Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Wine is bottled poetry.
Everyone lives by selling something.
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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.
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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?
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
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.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
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 regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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.
No man is useless while he has a friend.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
The world has no room for cowards.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
To forget oneself is to be happy.
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
I've a grand memory for forgetting.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
