Youth is wasted on the young.
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
A vow is a snare for sin.
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
That which builds is better than that which is built.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
