An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.