The chief beauty about timeis that you cannot waste it in advance.The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,as perfect, as unspoiled,as if you had never wasted or misapplieda...

A cause may be inconvenient, but it’s magnificent. It’s like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take...

The proper, wise balancingof one’s whole life may depend upon thefeasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurt us or gives us pleasure except within the brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on in...

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Ardour in well-doing is a misleading and a treacherous thing. It cries out loudly for employment; you can’t satisfy it at first; it wants more and more; it is eager to move mountains and divert...

Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is.

You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instrumentsproducing a confused agreeable massof sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.

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...

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made — so faithful is the public.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

without the power to concentrate thatis to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full...