This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?