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

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 suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

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.

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

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

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