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 an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

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