I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

To define is to limit.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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.

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.