I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

Literature is my Utopia