The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.