In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.