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, a conversation.

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

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

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, a conversation.

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

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

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