I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly,….

It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. ….

Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spre….

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food..

There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacri….

These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some genero….

I know what happiness is, for I have done good work..

It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and p….

Nothing made by brute force lasts..

It is better to be a fool than to be dead..

Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the w….

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer..

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour..

It takes hard writing to make easy reading..

How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Up in the air and over t….

Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are mark….

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right..

If this is death, it is easier than life..

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life..

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me..

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our li….