In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.