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

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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

Congenial labor is essence of happiness..

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 ….

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….

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

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..

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

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness..

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,….

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

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….

A well begun is half ended..

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed..