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

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.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

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

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.

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

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.