What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.