As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
Man, an animal that makes bargains.
I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
A well begun is half ended.
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories