A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
He that can have patience can have what he will.
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Love is being stupid together.
Love does not dominate it cultivates.
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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