I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

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

Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

Bad artists always admire each others work.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.