Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.
There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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.
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