Property is organized robbery.
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Whatever you have spend less.
Knowledge is power.
The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly, gradually, furtively, little by little; first with a little corn and oil for the exceedingly poor and wretched, later with corn and oil for voters who were not quite so poor, later still with corn and oil for pretty much every man that had a vote to sellexactly our own history over again.
You don’t create things, you discover things.
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.
I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.
It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.
Esther liked books out where everyone could see them, a sort of graphic index to the intricate labyrinth of her mind arrayed to impress the most casual guest, a system of immediate introduction which she had found to obtain in a number of grimy intellectual households in Greenwich Village.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
If we don’t occupy ourself with everything, then peaceful mind will have nowhere to abide.
