Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

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.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.