I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.