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.

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

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

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

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

Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.