You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.