One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

It is never too late to be who you want to be.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice.

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.