There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.