Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.

Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.

Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.