The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.