Logic is like the sword
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am – unbound.
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I’ve done it a thousand times.
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
