If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper -- and despise it.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. - Shaw, George Bernard

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.