The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

Tisn’t life that matters! ‘Tis the courage you bring to it.

Don’t play for safety – it’s the most dangerous thing in the world.

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.