Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.

You can't just go on being a good egg. You must either hatch or go bad!