Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'