Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.