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

Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.