Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another.

It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.