I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.