“Habit is stronger than reason.”
“Oaths are the fossils of piety.”
“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.”
“Music is essentially useless, as life is.”
“Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.”
“The highest form of vanity is love of fame.”
“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”
“Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.”
“All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.”
“America is a young country with an old mentality.”
“Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.”
“The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.”
“Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.”
“To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.”
“There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.”
“Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.”
“Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.”
“Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.”
“Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.”
“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.”
“Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.”
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
“If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.”
“The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.”
“Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.”
“It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.”
“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”
“The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.”
“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.”
“Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.”