Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
My reputation grows with every failure.
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.