A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.

Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.