The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.