As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

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

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.

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.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.