The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.