The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.