There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

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.

Most people sleep themselves stupid.

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

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

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.