“The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.”

“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”

“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”

“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.”

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

“Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”

“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”

“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”

“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”

“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”

“That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.”

“If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.”

“Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.”

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”