Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o’clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

A letter is a soliloquy, but a letter with a postscript is a conversation.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.