Logic is like the sword
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
When you’ve told someone that you’ve left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God’s message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.
Are you using your pain as an excuse or as a source of strength?
Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
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 more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Every being is in search of truth, but small fears go on preventing you.
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
