It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without vision is but drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.

An author departs, he does not die.

Seize every opportunity you have to learn. Keep your eyes and ears wide open and seize life - don't let the moments slip through your fingers like a fistful of…

I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look …

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye...We put off from time to tim…