The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.