Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.