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It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.