Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life

No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.