Life is the risk we cannot refuse.
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
I speak others' minds only to speak my own the more.
The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.
We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
A smile on your face can be felt on anothers heart.
When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer view and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm; it mocks hope; it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
My work is my only relationship to everything.
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
Hands that help are holier than lips that pray.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
Orgies are an early form of what will someday become sex by committee.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
Education: How come we have smart bombs and dumb kids?
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
What does a fish know about the water in which it swims all its life?
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
The eye tells what the tongue would hide.
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
The zoo is a place for animals to study the behaviour of human beings.
Don't grieve that your roses have thorns. Rejoice instead that your thorns have roses.
Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal.
