We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety.

To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest known link between the material life we have and the spiritual life that we can only guess at. Every great poet, painter, or musician - every inventor or man of science, every fine actor or orator, comes to us as the exponent of something diviner than we know. We cannot understand it, but we feel it, and acknowledge it.