“The man who dies rich dies disgraced.”
“Il est plus dangereux de s'associer à un sot qu'à un méchant.”
“On doit choisir, dans la vie, entre gagner de l'argent et le dépenser : on n'a pas le temps de faire les deux.”
“La société est composée de deux grandes classes : ceux qui ont plus de dîners que d'appétit, et ceux qui ont plus d'appétit que de dîners.”
“Le plus perdu de tous les jours est celui où l'on n'a pas ri.”
“The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.”
“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”
“Tell me what company you keep, and I will tell you what you are.”
“Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.”
“Truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks.”
“Too much sanity may be madness—and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be.”
“The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.”
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
“In nature nothing exists alone.”
“I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work: the chance to find yourself.”
“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
“Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through.”