You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

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

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.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.