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.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.