Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

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

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

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.