The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Peace is its own reward.
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late the good lived yesterday.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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