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.

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.

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

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

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

The price of Justice is eternal publicity.

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.