A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.

At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.