| I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. |
| Youth is wasted on the young. |
| You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. |
| When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. |
| People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. |
| Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. |
| Virtue is insufficient temptation. |
| Hell is full of musical amateurs. |
| Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. |
| The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. |