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.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
There is no such thing as a good tax.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
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