If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

I don't pretend to understand the universe - it's much bigger than I am.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

I don't believe in mathematics.

A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of e…

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have r…

As the little boy said when asked if he wanted to be a lawyer like his mother, 'Oh no, that's women's work.' (Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions)