It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

All progress is experimental.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.

Housework is what woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

Computers make people stupid.

People will believe absurd things - in the 19th century and now.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!

friendship was always contingent.

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.