Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
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.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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.
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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.
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
Let man be true and every god a liar.
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
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