My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.