If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.