An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.

Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

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

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.

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.