"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."