They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.