First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
Alcohol is the anaesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.
Religion is a good invention in times of stress.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
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