A great part of this life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.

-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.