It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Live life to the fullest.