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

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

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

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

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

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.