To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

My philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Material things ain’t nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you is. You wasn’t born with it; you gon‘ die without it.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Life is warfare.

I’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.

Error is always more busy than truth.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Law is mind without reason.

The lie is a condition of life.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.

Plato was a bore.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Character is destiny.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!