It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

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

Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.