Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.
War does not decide who is right but who is left.
After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.