In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car.
The case for meat-eaters - if eating meat is a sin, then why are some plants carnivorous?
Having settled down in the promised land of money and adventure - returning to a land of your parents last days can be a big dilemma to many. Isn't your greatest wealth your parents, and the best adventure - to see them happy before they go.
The purest love is the one between parents and their children. The rest may be more elevated, but never as deep or long-lasting.
Couples should keep their love pure before it poisons the purest love of all - that between them and their children
Mastering an art is like reaching the top of the passion mountain. . . . at the top the passion dies out! So keep learning.
Your eyes are windows to your dreams; Your ears are windows to your mind; You nose is the door to your heart - you can win over any man with just your smell.
It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.
Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. . . . we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.
Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education.