Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

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.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.