It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.

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

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

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.