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

- Anna Brackett

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. …

- Anna Brackett

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

- Anna Brackett

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…

- Anna Brackett

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

- Anna Brackett

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…

- Anna Brackett

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

- Anna Brackett

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…

- Anna Brackett

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…

- Anna Brackett