I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

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

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

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.