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 business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

The secret of happiness is curiosity

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

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

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

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