When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.