I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.