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.
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
A well begun is half ended.
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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!