The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
I find so many things to fear and so few to hope.
Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like a gentleman I knew, who would never say 'the weather grew cold,' but that 'winter begins to salute us. ' I have no patience for such coxcombs.
But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.
Surfeits kill more than fasting does.
I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to wish a thing merely lest my fortune should take that occasion to use me ill.
Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
If individuals do not occupy their legitimate position, then it will be occupied by a god or a king or a coalition of interest groups. If citizens do not exercise the powers confered by their legitimacy, others will do so. (I - The Great Leap Backwards)
Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.
It's coexistence or no existence.