You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.