Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Property is organized robbery.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.