Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
Nothing is new except arrangement.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.
The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
