Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

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

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