In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.