An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers. The speeches in our time are more careful and elaborate…

I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you t…

It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintain…

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events th…

I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat …

I think we have much more to say about what happens to us than most people believe.