Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.