An index is a great leveller.
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
Let us try what love will do.
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.
Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
