Prophesy is a good line of business but it is full of risks.
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them....
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively not by the false...
All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is...
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we...
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his...
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted...
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
Because people have no thoughts to deal in they deal cards and try and win...
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature...
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness...
Patriotism when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning is a...
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the...
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but...
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity...
Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can...
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand however is usually not...
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain...
Money is human happiness in the abstract he then who is no longer capable...
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as...
Great men are like eagles and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who...
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work a great head.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read...
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain which is the positive element of...
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at...
Every parting gives a foretaste of death every reunion a hint of the...
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth every...
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide...
It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his...
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training for it trains...
