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

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

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.

Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.

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.

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

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.