Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

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

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.

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.

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.