If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

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

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.