I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress.

A concept is stronger than a fact.