Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.