An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

To beprepared is half the victory.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Our distrust is very expensive.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.