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 bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity--a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bol...d navigation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and noth...ing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 nearly extinguished.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »