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

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

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.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

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.

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.

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.