Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

There is but one art, to omit.

There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.

The world has no room for cowards.

When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.