To hold a pen is to be at war.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
When you’ve got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.
There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe… the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
