The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

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

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.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.