I always felt so different - I felt I was in the wrong shell.
...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.
Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.