Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
