If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
I have read your book and much like it.
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.