To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

The essence of love is kindness.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.