Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

France has usually been governed by prostitutes

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

Chastity - you can carry it too far.