Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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