We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.
Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.
Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.
We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.
The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.
Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
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