The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.