You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
A man can believe in a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.
Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.
It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
The business of life is to enjoy oneself everything else is a mockery.
Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him ... two.
Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fell...
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the pl...
