Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
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