Trouble shared is trouble halved.

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.