There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

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

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.