Men would be angels; angels would be gods.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Mistakes are often the best teachers.
Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.
Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness.
Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason.
Revenge is an inhuman word.
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within they palaces.
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
It gives me great strength to know that half the people I meet are below average.
A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country.
You can't think and hit at the same time.
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
A determinate purpose of life, and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.