Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

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.

I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.

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

The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.