Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

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

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.