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.

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.

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

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

Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.