Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

A mighty stream of tendency.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralising.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

Silently as a dream the fabric rose; No sound of hammer or of saw was there.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.

Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.

You will stir up the hornets.

If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It's my job.

Not fewer than three nor more than nine.

From the looks--not the lips, is the soul reflected.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.

Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.