When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.

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

American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of youngsters are being prepared for careers they have little aptitude for - and little interest in except for dubious prestige.

No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.

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.