Henry S. HaskinsThinkers

Beauty is distracting — if a man hears much that a woman says, she is not beautiful.

A Conclusion is usually a consolidated guess.

Conviction is opinions which circumstances have temporarily backed.

Courtesy is equally the language of frozen and melted hearts.

Daydreaming is the gaseous decomposition of true purpose.

Glory is a viewpoint that depends on the estimation of lookers-on. When lookers-on perish as countless generations have done, glory perishes, as countless glories have done.

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

Love is a transitive verb.

Mediocrity's last refuge is good behavior.