The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
Style is the man himself.
The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Humankind is at the crossroads. One path leads to utter despair and hopelessness. The other path to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
The art of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
In the drowsy dark cave of the mind, dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.
Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.
Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.
Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.
Little children disturb your sleep, big ones your life.
Lack of ideas is a most general plagiarism.
Parentage is a very important profession; but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of children.
Wit is educated insolence.
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Don't tell a man how to do a thing. Tell him what you want done, and he'll surprise you with his ingenuity.
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Reality is for people who lack imagination.
There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
This mortal air is one wide pestilence, that kills us all at last.
Don't let time take control of your destiny. Let your destiny take control of your time.
To err is human, to blame it on someone else is more human.
I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
When all else fails, men turn to reason.
Cats are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
