Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Lying, like license, has its degrees.

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.

It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years, and that, too with sur-prising strides. Brain-work comes as easily to the old as physical exertion to the child. One is moving, it is true, towards the end of life, but that end is now a goal, and not a reef in which the vessel may be dashed.

No human creature can give orders to love.