Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.