The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.