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.

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

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

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

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

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