Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.