Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the Universe.

It always is wretched weather according to us. The weather is like the government - always in the wrong. In summer-time we say it is stifling; in winter that i…

All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.