Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
Love is the beauty of the soul.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
God does not play dice.
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Business is the salt of life.
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
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