It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

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

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

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.