Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the mind had an upper and lower story and the regular performance of the day's duties moved and motivated on the upper floor, while down below the all-absorbing problem toils silently, forcefully, toward its solution.

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.

Work becomes at once a delight and a tyrant. For even when the time comes and you can relax, you hardly know how.

Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life, I addressed myself to the sweet duty of keeping these attributes for my children's sake and my own. And in striving to provide a living for them, I found a success beyond my wildest dreams.

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.

Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents.