“Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.”

Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness.

Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment.

When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.

A leader can never be happy until his people are happy.

The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.

Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Major brands don’t know what to do with happy customers. They make it hard for customers to say thanks and way too often companies don’t celebrate and embrace customers’ positive gestures.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.