Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.