Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality.