Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.

the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.

Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.