"You see things, and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were, and say 'Why not?"

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth."

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real."

"He who can, does. He who cannot teaches."

"We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."

"Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.)"

"If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters."

"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."

"To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other."

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

"The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves."