Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
It takes a wise man to handle a lie. A fool had better remain honest.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.
A man can believe in a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
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.
The business of life is to enjoy oneself everything else is a mockery.
To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him ... two.
Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
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...
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.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
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...
