Security will produce danger.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
What is easy is seldom excellent.
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation — a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial “we.”
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: -in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
The heart is forever inexperienced.
It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
The truest end of life is to know that life never ends.
