Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing meI will be concerned at my own want of ability.
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
To hold a pen is to be at war.
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
People do not lack strength they lack will.
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
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