Poems List

There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it;

A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished.

Successful innovators recognize that discovery of great ideas come from looking at the same thing as everyone else and observing something different.

To err is human, but is feels divine.

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot.

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance.

Noble be man,

Pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it.

When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail --- none of which is easy.

Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

Honor and shame from no condition rise.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God-but to create him.

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now.