Only the brave know how to forgive. ... A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Ef women want any rights more'n dey got, why don't dey jes' take 'em and not be talkin' about it.
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.
What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end.