She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.