Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug .

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter .

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.