All great truths began as blasphemies.
Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Fashions after all are only induced epidemics.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I did ten times more work.
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness an...
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
We are all savages
Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat?Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.