Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.