“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain”
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“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain”
“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich”
“Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.”
“There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press”
“The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy”
“Love is a little haven of refuge from the world. ”
“Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends ”
“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm”
“What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.”
“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”
“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other ”
“A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp”
“People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves ”
“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”
“There is no defense against criticism except obscurity”
“A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.”
“To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude ”
“The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.””
“Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies”
“A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences”