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

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

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

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.