When will we realize that the fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary for us to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to?
We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg.
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.