Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.

No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.