| |  | | | | | | | | | | | | In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language. | | Wisdom and Ignorance | | | | | It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. | | Law and Politics | | | | | | | | Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. | | Art and Literature | | | | | | | | | | | Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. | | Law and Politics | | | | | | | | | | | Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. | | Work and Recreation | | | | | Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. | | Law and Politics | | | | | The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. | | Altruism and Cynicism | | | | | | | | The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. | | Wisdom and Ignorance | | | | | Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. | | Success and Failure | | | | | | Aphorisms: 21 - 35 of 35 | Pages: « 1 2 | | | |
