An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

To miss the joy is to miss everything.

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.