Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
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.
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