The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.

Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred. No two persons, if sincere, can have the same philosophy.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

Beauty is the child of love.