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.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

Most people sleep themselves stupid.

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.

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

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.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.