A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
As to abuse, I thrive on it. Abuse, hearty abuse, is a tonic to all save men of indifferent health.
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Is there anything more charming than a thoroughly defective verb?
It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
No great man is ever born too soon or too late.
No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.
Nothing ages a man like living always with the same woman.
One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous.
The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.
The families of our friends are always a disappointment.
The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.
The secret of happiness is curiosity.
There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him, two.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
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