I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
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