Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.