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.

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.