Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.

Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.