Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

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.

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

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

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