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

The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

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.

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.

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

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.