The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home.

To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.