Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.