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.

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

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.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

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.

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!