Plato was right, but not quite right.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.