All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.