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 gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

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.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it (as it were) for the first time; in its right, authentic colors; without making comparisons. Cherish and burnish this faculty of seeing crudely, simply, artlessly, ignorantly; of seeing like a baby or a lunatic, who lives each moment by itself and tarnishes by the present no remembrance of the past.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

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