A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

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.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

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