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

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

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.

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.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

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.

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.