Make up your mind to be happy.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.