Necessity

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself

Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry

As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work

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.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less

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

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age

Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed

Every generation needs regeneration

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

Man lives for science as well as bread.