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.

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

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

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

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

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.