In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Sit loosely in the saddle.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
To forget oneself is to be happy.
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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.
I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
You can kill the body but not the spirit.
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese – toasted mostly.