Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

What's the use of money if you have to earn it.

Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.