Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.

Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.