To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

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

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.