Don't give advice unless you're asked.
When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.
Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.
Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.
I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.
The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.
uproar against a new idea, and laws to prevent anybody's accepting it, nearly always can be regarded as a signal that the new idea is just about to be taken for granted. . . . they didn't start making laws to prohibit the teaching of evolution until everybody was about to take it for granted.
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.