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.

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.