A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
