The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.

And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.