Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
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