To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

The great trues are too important to be new.

It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain

Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.