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

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.