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.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.