Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. we must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
So they still are quick and well who should be, by rights, in hell.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
This is the strangest life i have ever known.
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing poetry.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
I hate almost all rich people, but i think i'd be darling at it.
Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Until a man is nothing, god can make nothing out of him.