Property is organized robbery.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Leave the rest to the gods.
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it cannot be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they’re gone.
The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man’s past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.
