Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.- Arnold Bennett
Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
The price of justice is eternal publicity.
The moment you are born you are done for.
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Journalists say a thing that they know is not true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
