Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

Duty is what one expects from others.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.