When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.