Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their read more

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a read more

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when read more

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute
with vigor; to sketch out a map of read more

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute
with vigor; to sketch out a map of possibilities; and then to treat them
as probabilities.

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and
now, unless I am letting my read more

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and
now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and
expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.

Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized read more

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.

Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.