We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.