Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

Joy is the best of wine.

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.