It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

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

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

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