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

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

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

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

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

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.