Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram.

If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.

There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.

Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.