“I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.”
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
“Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.”
“It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.”
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”
"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying 'Amen' to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."
“The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God 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 of life.”
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