Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting for one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

When you are unhappy or dissatisfied, is there anything in the world more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.