The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.