Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.

... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.

Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.

Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.