“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
Life“There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.”
Good“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
Life“When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.”
Great“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.”
Good“That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.”
Success“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”
Good“Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.”
Good“I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
Great“You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.”
Marriage“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”
Business“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”
Business“Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”
Inspirational“It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.”
Health“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”
Politics“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Inspirational“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.”
Nature“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”
Best“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
Courage“The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.”
Art“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”
Gardening“So long as we love, we serve so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
Love