Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.

What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?

Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.