Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him...two.