If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.
Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.
Good manners do more for a man that good looks.
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.
Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?
A continuous perception is taking place deep within the mind. It is hard to hear that signal because it is blurred over by your own thoughts, desires, and fears. It is blurred over by your emotional swings. You become dull.
So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.