If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

All great art and literature is propaganda.