It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
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