The Present Age, For All Its Cosmopolitan

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.

A Man Can Believe A Considerable Deal Of Rubbish, And Yet Go About His Daily Work In A Rational And Cheerful Manner.

What Is All Wisdom Save A Collection Of Platitudes? But The Man Who Orders His Life According To Their Teachings Cannot Go Far Wrong.

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. How Easy That Seems! Has Any One Ever Done So? Never. Has Any Man Ever Attained To Inner Harmony By Pondering The Experience Of Others? Not Since The World Began! He Must Pass Through The Fire.

The Longer One Lives, The More One Realizes That Nothing Is A Dish For Every Day.