On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.

A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.

There isn't a new sorrow in the world -- they're all old ones -- but we can all find new happiness if we look in the right way.

The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?