If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
Morality is contraband in war.
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
God works wonders now and then Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
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