Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.