Do what you know is right, but try not to get caught.
Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
Never allow yourself to get caught without a loose million handy.
Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.
He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.
History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.
I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further and further. Best of all, mine has been a life of loving and being loved. What a tragedy that all this will disappear with the used-up body!
Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one of the cities in the diaspora. But I always deemed myself a child of Jerusalem, one who is in reality a native of Jerusalem.
She pulled off Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read.
I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.