To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

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

To forget oneself is to be happy.

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.