It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.