To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.