A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody read.[As quoted in
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity.
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.