The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

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

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.