Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
I am opposed to millionaires but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.
Richard Wagner a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.
Love is a madness if thwarted it develops fast.
There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.
It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream--a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but yo...
Comparison is the death of joy.
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.