A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
No matter what has happened always behave as if nothing had happened.
If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life.
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
The chief beauty about timeis that you cannot waste it in advance.The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,as perfect, as unspoiled,as if you had never wasted or misapplieda...
It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the...
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
We shall never have more time. We have and have always had all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something use...
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
It is well when judging a friend to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like all-embracing compassion.
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At...
A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
The parents exist to teach the child but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and the child has a very great deal to teach them.
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
What then? Are we only to buy the books that we read? The question has merely to be thus bluntly put, and it answers itself. All impassioned bookmen, except a few who devote their whole lives to readi...