The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

Risk is the salt and sugar of life.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.

Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.

There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.