There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparin….

The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave t….

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth..

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity..

Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the thing….

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding..

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged..

The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp..

Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught..

if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him wit….