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

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 ….

A well begun is half ended..

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….

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..

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness..

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

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

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority..

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 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..

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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….