Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation..

The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing..

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones..

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are..

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it..

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you..

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself..

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories..

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, ….

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it..

Tolerance is only another name for indifference..

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction..

From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they wer….

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned..

The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. W….

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life..

I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be rid of ties, responsibilities, dut….

Only a mediocre person is always at his best..

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person..

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, i….

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work..