Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

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.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

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

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.