The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.
Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.
When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?
My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
Stay beautiful, keep it ugly
Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.