Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness ... It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy.
Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
A little learning is a dangerous thing.
A planned life is a dead life.
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
How happy would many people live if they cared about other people's affairs as little as about their own.
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed".
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
They who are of the opinion that money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for money.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
Those who cast the Votes, they decide nothing. Those who count the votes, they decide everything.
Appeal: v.t. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organisation upon the natural organisation of the body.
Lawyer - One who protects us against robbers by taking away the temptation.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
For, I ask, what is man in Nature? A cypher compared with the Infinite, an All compared with Nothing, a mean between nothing and all.
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
