Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
Fear always springs from ignorance.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
The public must and will be served.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Sometimes if I see negative things it really doesn’t faze me, because you’ve got to be tough and you’ve got to be you.
