You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
Syllables govern the world.
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
My reputation grows with every failure.
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
