One must not hope to be more than one can be.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
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