It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.