And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

A distracted existence leads us to no goal

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much