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.

You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

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.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.