Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .