O imitators, you slavish herd!
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Make a good use of the present.
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
Leave the rest to the gods.
I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.
Dont go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Best friends that pick wedgies together stay besties for life!
Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.
