Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.

Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.