Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

All students can learn.

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!