Indifference

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg

If you have it (love), you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Active evil is better than passive good

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind

The busy bee has no time for sorrow

Let twenty pass, and stone the twenty-first, loving not, hating not, just choosing so

When earth breaks up and heaven expands, how will the change strike me and you in the house not made with hands?

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property

The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselves

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference