Anger is a brief lunacy.
Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
The Public is merely a multiplied “me”.
My love for you was like a poem I wrote; one that I disregarded as average. Torn out, thrown away to the rubbish heap, waiting; wishing to be picked up and appreciated by someone else, for the masterpiece that it is.
Nothing is real.
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Dont go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
God is better served in resisting a Temptation to Evil, than in many formal Prayers.
Men’s men: gentle or simple, they’re much of a muchness.
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
