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

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

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

Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram.

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.

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case with those persons whose knowledge of the world is of such sort that it results in extreme distrust of men.