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 test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter..

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

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

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….

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

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 ….

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

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 ….