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

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

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

I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.

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.

What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.