A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.

God answers all true prayer either in kind or in kindness.

Clutter forces the brain to consume energy. Create uncluttered environments instead.

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.

Not since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter.

One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.

Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror