It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.