Don't confuse meaning with truth.

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.

The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.

There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much one from another; but it is true that the ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school.