Better is the enemy of good.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Whether he knew it or not, the life he lived was his penance. Punishing himself, for what he believes are his sins. Consciously or subconsciously, he creates the world he lives in. Never believing that he is deserving happiness, deserving joy. His self-destructive nature, in his eyes, and his eyes only, is justified. Everyone is deserving absolution, but he needs to understand, that he is the only one able to forgive himself.
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
All diseases run into one, old age.
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man’s self. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains, and it is sometimes base; and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing.
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
I think there’s a great beauty to having problems. That’s one of the ways we learn.
The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
