Religion flourishes in greater purity without than with the aid of Government.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies but they never can be friends because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

In many ways when you're a Nobel peace laureate you have an obligation to humankind to society.

The executive has no right in any case to decide the question whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

Charity puts and end to poverty, righteous conduct to misery, discretion to ignorance, and scrutiny to fear.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes no affections - a mere heart of stone.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First let her think she's having her own way. And second let her have it.

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