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 worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

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

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

A well begun is half ended.

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