The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.