Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

One does what one can, not what one cannot.

I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.