We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.

Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.