Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy that seems! Has any one ever done so? Never. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.