To forget oneself is to be happy.

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

To miss the joy is to miss everything.

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

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