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

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

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

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

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

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.