The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.

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

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

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

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.