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

Most people sleep themselves stupid.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

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