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

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

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.

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.