When in doubt tell the truth.

We can't reach old age by another man's road.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.