People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.