Anna Brackett Quotes

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

We are always getting ready to live, and never having time enough to live.

There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.

He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.