You cannot predict the future.
The universe in a nutshell
Women. They are a complete mystery to me.
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
I cannot live without books.
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
“Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”