Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.

The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.

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

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.