If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

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.

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

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

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.

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