Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.