It is only life and love that give love and life.
Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.
Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.
No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.
If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
In God’s great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.
Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
Don’t make excuses, make good.
Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.
Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it’s larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.