How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

The toughness of any journey means absolutely nothing to a mind that travels with the spirit of perseverance.

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

I would never be innovative enough to "blaze my own trail," I'm just trying to be interesting. So I don't look to anyone else as far as inspiration.

The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.

Giving up on life is easier than going through the hard times to find the good.

We may run into Kevin,” Lucy said gloomily. “She’s hoping to run into Kevin,” Zoë assured her. Justine smiled grimly. “Preferably with my car.

If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.