Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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.