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.
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
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