The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.
“The people that set one animal against another haven't the guts to be bullies themselves. They're just secondhand cowards.”
“For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.”
The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
“Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.”
“Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.”
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
“Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.”
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
“A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.”
“An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.”
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
“A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.”