Alle ved, hvad en mellemmand er: Han snyder den ene og bedrager den anden.
At være bevidst om, at man er uvidende om kendsgerningerne er et stort skridt mod at få viden.
Det er lettere at være kritisk end korrekt.
En konservativ regering er organiseret hykleri.
Enhver læge og enhver politiker har sin yndlingsdiagnose.
Hemmeligheden ved succes er stadig at ville noget.
Ja, jeg er jøde, og da de højtærede herrers forfædre var brutale vilde i et ukendt land, var mine præster i Salomons tempel.
A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
A majority is always better than the best repartee.
A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
Amusement to an observing mind is study.
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.
It is easier to be critical than correct.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
The sense of existence is the greatest happiness.
The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops--no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
There is no wisdom like frankness.
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.