The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.

We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one.

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.