The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we read more

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.

Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have read more

Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.

Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The read more

A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite read more

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. - Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings.