One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out..

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mank….

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have n….

The families of our friends are always a disappointment..

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation..

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refug….

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong..

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes..

You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never..

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….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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