We can only know others by ourselves.

To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks.

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.