The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

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

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

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.