Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.