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

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.

Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.

Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure.