Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
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.
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.