There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you m… - Edith Wharton

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.

I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.