We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.

These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: "I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget." But they have no slow, big ideas.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it has no horse-power. Sometimes I think that perhaps the most competent business men, and lawyers and doctors, who must be at the office at nine o'clock every morning, do not realize this and take more credit for initiative and industry than they deserve. And it is why all the bright women of the world, who if more were expected of them, might do important work, but who instead have a chronic feeling of ineffectiveness and sloth.

Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.