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.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

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

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.