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

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

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

I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself; have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.

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.

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.