Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.