It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
From Arnold Bennett
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
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.
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.
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
The price of justice is eternal publicity.
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.
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.
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