The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.