Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.

One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.

Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.

The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the little creatures of the air and meadow were life incarnate, from sheer joy of living? Who among us has not come home, singing, when the streets were almost impassable with snow, or met a friend with a happy, smiling face, in the midst of a pouring rain?

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.