To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.