If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.