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

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

I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation..

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

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

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

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far….

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears..

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 ….

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 ….

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 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….

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 ….

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….

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

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene..

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

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in..

A well begun is half ended..

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without..