I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.

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

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

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

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

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.