Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
We’re comic. We’re all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
I constantly ask myself if what I’m doing is for me or somebody else. It’s tripping me out!
People die of fright and live of confidence.
It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I’m with you kid. Let’s go.”
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
Reality is a sliding door.
There is only one good – knowledge; and only one evil – ignorance.
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
