If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.