Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.

Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

Our abilities to understand, adjust, and change make us wise.

The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.

Love is like the North Star. In a changing world, it's always constant.

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.

If you want nothing, do what you want. If you want everything, develop discipline

Coincidence doesn't happen a third time.

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.