The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.