Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.
Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind.
Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.
He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes.
The only menace is inertia.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false reptile prudence, the result, not of caution, but of fear.
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.
The best is the enemy of the good.
As one cat said to another: Birthdays are like fur balls - the more you have, the more you gag.
Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.