I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

People do not lack strength they lack will.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

ett djupt citat

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.