Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or notice taken when anybody enters or leaves. Let the entering man take his place and pipe, without obligatory remarks; if he cannot smoke...let him at least affect to do so, and not ruffle the established stream of things.

What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!

We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.