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.

Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.

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

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

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.

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.