Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.
They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace — Says Alice.
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.