If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.