Better is the enemy of good.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
Dare to think for yourself.
To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
All styles are good except the tiresome kind.
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
My emancipation don’t fit your equation.
I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.
Merry Christmas! the man threatened.
I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
