Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
What is art? Nature concentrated.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
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