The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
No person is important enough to make me angry.
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.