Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.