It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

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

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

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

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

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

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.