It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
All pain is one malady with many names.
Everything yields to diligence.
The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of god.
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
I like reality. Tt tastes like bread.
Every man thinks god is on his side.
Men create real miracles when they use their god-given courage and intelligence.
Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.