The moment you're born you're done for.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

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

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.