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

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

Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

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

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

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