Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.