... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.

...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

Life is made up of compromises.