The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

You know what a woman's curiosity is.

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.