You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements..

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends..

The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery..

The secret of happiness is curiosity.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly….

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded..

No great man is ever born too soon or too late..

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner..

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination..

Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest..

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble..

Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating..

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother..

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things..

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves..

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality..

Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end….

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man m….

How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken..

The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit..

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude..