1. ”A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.”
2. “A friend is a present you give to yourself.”
3. “A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.”
4. “Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.”
5. “Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
6. ”Extreme busyness... is a symptom of deficient vitality. There is a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about , who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation. Bring these fellows into the country, or set them aboard ship, and you will see how they ine for their desk or their study. They have no curiosity; they cannot give themselves over to random provocations; they do not take pleasure in the exercise of their faculties for its own sake. ... It is no good speaking to such folk; they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough, and they pass those hours in a sort of coma, which are not dedicated to furious moiling in the gold-mill.”
7. “It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.”
8. “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.”
9. “It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. what may be called a phenomenon, no matter in what sphere.”
10. “Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords.”
11. “My body which my dungeon is,And yet my parks and palaces.”
12. “Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.”
13. “Thanks, when they are expressed, are often more embarrassing than welcomed.”
14. “Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.”
15. “So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I might almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
16. “That a man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.”
17. “The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.”
18. “The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.”
19. “The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
20. “The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from thedomination of outside conditions.”
21. ”The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.”
22. “There is so much good in the worst of us, an so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.”
23. “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.”
24. “To be honest, to be kind--to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation--above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself--here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.”
25. “To love is the great Amulet that makes this world a garden. “
26. “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”
27. “Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,Steel-true and blade-straight,The great artificer made my mate.”
28. "We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."
29. “We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.”
30. ”WITHIN your magic web of hair, lies furled The fire and splendour of the ancient world; The dire gold of the comet's wind-blown hair; The songs that turned to gold the evening air When all the stars of heaven sang for joy. 5 The flames that burnt the cloud-high city Troy. The mænad fire of spring on the cold earth; The myrrh-lit flame that gave both death and birth To the soul Phoenix; and the star-bright shower That came to Danaë in her brazen tower... 10 Within your magic web of hair lies furled The fire and splendour of the ancient world.”
31. “Wine is bottled poetry.”
32. “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?”
