He who would travel happily must travel light.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

The true gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self‑control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots. The other is wings.

In three words I can sum up everything I've ever learned about life: It goes on.