It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Your library is your paradise.
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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