Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.

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.

One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.

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.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

The moment you're born you're done for.