To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.
The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.
Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.
There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
Wise men are not wise at all times.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
The dice of God are always loaded.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
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