A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.
Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Bravery is more important than perfection.- Kanye West
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men’s manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
You are perfect. An exquisitely fine work of art, labor of love, suspended in silence. Bejeweled, trembling, kissed by a breeze, mesmerized by your beauty. You await in silence, beckoning me to a silken-wrapped slumber.
I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That’s right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That’s democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
