When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
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