One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
We pardon to the extent that we love.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Success has always been a great liar.
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