"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world."

"Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods, and then year by year, gradually walking home."

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."

"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed."

"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

"Oh for a book and a shady nook..."

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

"This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

"Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity."

"If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting."

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."

"Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought."