All the fun is in how you say a thing.
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.
Contentment is the only real wealth.
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.
Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.
I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense.
Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.