A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.

Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.

There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.

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

All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.