No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.

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

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.

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.

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

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.