No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.