The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because they are childlike, he is also a schemer, self-seeker, traitor, Judas, crook, and villain - in short, a man.

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

I have no skills with machines. I fear them, and because I cannot help attributing human qualities to them, I suspect that they hate me and will kill me if they can.

The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.