We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
Taste may change, but inclination never.
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.
However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.
Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.
The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.
Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.