“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.”
“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
“Covenants, without the sword, are but words.”
“The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they'll go through anything.”
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”
“People do not lack strength; they lack will.”
“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
“Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.”
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”