[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
Your friends are all the dullest dogs I know. They are not beautiful: they are only decorated. They are not clean: they are only shaved and starched. They are not dignified: they are only fashionably...
What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
Most people do not pray they only beg.
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Written over the gate here are the words 'Leave every hope behind, ye who enter.' Only think what a relief that is! For what is hope? A form of moral responsibility. Here there is no hope, and consequ...
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.