The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

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 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.

Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.