The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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