Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.