Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Courage is grace under pressure.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.