In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.