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.

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

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.