It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

To be a champion you must live like one.

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

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