There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.