There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.