You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Friends and Friendship

To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two.

Mothers

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.

Reality

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.