Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.