What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

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.