Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
To forget oneself is to be happy.
Wine is bottled poetry.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
