Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both.
It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
