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

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

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

I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.