We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties..

You should go to picture-galleries and museums of sculpture to be acted upon, and not to express or try to form your own perfectlyfutile opinion. It ….

You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold diff….

We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to….

Only the flowing water is pure and sweet. Only the spinning top and the moving bicycle do not fall over. Rest is not found in irregular and purposele….

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world..

If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but a rehash of the best and the oldest. ….

There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession..

A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used instead of your mind t….

When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, no….

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energe….

There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must be present wherever there is unused power of whateve….

What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been….

History in the making is a very uncertain thing. It might be better to wait till the South American republic has got through withits twenty-fifth rev….

We are always getting ready to live, and never having time enough to live..

Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her work,if with a certain am….

The ways of living have been rendered vastly easier by a multitude of inventions, by the increasing wealth of the country, by better and more intelli….

Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is the one really impor….

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use..

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher..