Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better
Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.
Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is.
If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.
Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep.
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
There have always existed three ways of keeping the people loving and loyal. One is to leave them alone, to trust them and not to interfere. This plan, however, has very seldom been practised, because the politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked, and something must be done to make it stand quiet.
Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.
Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.
Every knock is a boost.
Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.
Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
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