I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

The world is so full of a number of things, I ’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.

Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my father neither the part of a Christian nor yet of a gentleman to set his own livelihood and fish for that of others, on the cast of painted pasteboard.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant." -Robert Louis Stevenson

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!