Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

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

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

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.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

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.