What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at length gave them no peace. They did not know when to swallow their cud, and their lives of course yielded no milk.

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.