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

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 only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

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.

The price of Justice is eternal publicity.

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

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely