I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

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.

To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

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

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.