The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

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.

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

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

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.

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

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.