Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.