The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.