Walter B. Pitkin

“Life begins at forty.”

“Wisdom is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.”

“The unhappiest people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. The happiest are those who have planned something to do that they love, and then do it.”

“Happiness is like a cat, if you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.”

“Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else.”

“Success is the brand on the brow of the man who has aimed too low.”

“Learning is not to be tacked on to a man's education; it must be woven into it.”

“To be happy, you must be your own sunshine.”

“Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.”

“It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.”

“A short story is a prose narrative requiring from a half hour to two hours to read.”