A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.