If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

Soul, what have I to do with you?

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.

We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.