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.
To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.
Do not measure success by today’s harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.