Better is the enemy of good.
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.
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.
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes.
There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
