There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

History is a bucket of ashes.

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.