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

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

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.

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.