When doctors describe pain as experiencing "discomfort," it's like saying Hiroshima experienced "urban renewal".
It is easy to go down into Hell. . . ; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - -there's the rub.
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud!
If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.
All things deteriorate in time.
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.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.
I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.