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

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

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.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.