It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

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

America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.