It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
A place for everything, and everything in its place.
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
Comedy is acting out optimism.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Freedom is from within.