Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.