Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Common sense is not so common.
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Love is not consolation. It is light.
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
I bear a charmed life.
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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