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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.