That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
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.
I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.
Although I express myself with some degree of pleasantry, the purport of my words is entirely serious.
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.
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.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.
To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.