Property is organized robbery.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
Youth is wasted on the young.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
He that does good for good’s sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
We have more than we use.
If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are a different game you should play.
I always forgive others. The anger; sadness; frustration; pain, whatever feelings I felt, no matter the hurt; the tears, I always found understanding and reason to forgive them; to not hold onto it; to not resent them. But there is one, who I never seem to be able to give absolution, and that’s myself.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
He who praises every body, praises nobody.
For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
Recognize the ego for what it is: a collective dysfunction, the insanity of the human mind.
