Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling.

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it.

The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There is no telling what it may not vomit up.