In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.

When we have loved, that loving part is the best part of any and every day.

You may have gathered that I am not the most cheerful of revellers - some characterise me as the death and soullessness of any party but it wasn't always so, believe me.

She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

Nature is always wise in every part.

Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?

All men start life as a road-user and only few continue it as a road-creator!

I never stole a joke in my life. I just find them before they're lost.

Without philosophy, action has no meaning.