Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired.

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.