It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.