Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that they underestimate the part that discipline plays. But the discipline you have in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.

Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless they can shut themselves up in a coterie and forget the cold outer world. The man of science has no need of a coterie, since he is thought well of by everybody except his colleagues. The artist, on the contrary, is in the painful situation of having to choose between being despised and being despicable.

Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does the barber shave himself?