People who are busy and happy don’t write diaries; they are too busy living.
Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.
A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Love your country, but never trust its government.
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery.
Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
Gentlemen, let’s go row!
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.
Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.
No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.
Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.