“For adventure is not outside a man it is within. ”

“Contentment and indeed usefulness comes as the infallible result of great acceptances great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.”

“What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid boundless colored mutability!-Life in the making?”

“We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.”

“Of all the people in the world those who want the most are those who have the most.”

“No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”