A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

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

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.