A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.