To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

To miss the joy is to miss everything.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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

When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy.

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

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