A man trusts his ears less than his eyes.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

Never laugh at live dragons.

...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgementon what words conceal?

We can love and do righteous acts only by grace.

A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

I'd love to just think of myself as a filmmaker, and I wait for the day when the modifier can be a moot point.

During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.

Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.