Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

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

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

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 moments we are all artists.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

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.

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.