Habit is everything, even in love.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Current "literature" [is] well-written books in which disgusting people do disgusting things to other disgusting people for no apparent reason and with no apparent resolution.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

I don't understand why the police are infallible. They remind me a lot of the Catholic Church.

Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

[Donald Trump] has a pretty sizable electoral map win, much more than anybody thought.