The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

The doer alone learneth.

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

The advantage of a bad memory is that, several times over, one enjoys the same good things for the first time.

In individuals insanity is rare, but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.

Morality is the herd instinct in the individual.

Distrust all men in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time ...

Independence is for the very few; it is a privilege of the strong.