War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
To know nothing is the happiest life.
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
The desire to write grows with writing.
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of deat...
Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
Your library is your paradise.
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them...
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
Humility is truth.
When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.