A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober not always, but most of the time.
Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.
'If you don't go to other men's funerals,' he told Father stiffly, 'they won't go to yours.'
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
Reason is the servant of instinct.
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilization grow old and die out, but in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen . . .
If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours.
Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
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