For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.