If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
There is no come back to caves. We are too many.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.