Love truth, but pardon error.
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Dont be content with things as they are. Dont take No for an answer. Never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth. She has lived and thrived only by repeated subjugations.
He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
The connection between us runs so strong and deep. It’s like a steel cable stretching across the ocean bed, so many fathoms below, that even the most skilled and courageous of deep sea divers cannot reach it to cut it. It remains strong, silent, invisible, invincible.
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
It’s the ones that stayed after the Exodus, that I knew were real and could handle the truth; that would stay with me on my journey, for better or worse.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence.
I was born upon thy bank, river, my blood flows in thy stream, and thou meanderest forever. At the bottom of my dream.