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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

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Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

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A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

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The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

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Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

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Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

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