If you run into trouble, just tell everybody that the security of the country requires a strong domestic Egyptian-cotton speculating industry.
Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies;Both seas within Him rest, and yet in that small pool He lies.
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.
Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
when parameters are not set for man, there is always an unknown abuse
Capture your youth, while you can.