Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to ….

What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or ….

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book,….

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping..

The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed..

Congenial labor is essence of happiness..

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness..

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do..

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end..

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow..

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy..

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life..

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survi….

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way..

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world..

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wron….

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is c….

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, h….

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suff….

The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and ….

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another..