To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

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.

In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

But of works of art little can be said.