Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

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

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

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.