If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

Originality provokes originality.

Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.