I never skulk, and lurk only sometimes.
A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.
Lost time is never found again.
My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.
The great error of nearly all studies of war. . . has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.
Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature.
Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.
Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.