You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life.

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.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

I hate to write, but I love to have written.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.