A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy—just a boy.

My job is to make you think what you think is your businessRjS

A little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong nation.

At the end of the world the sunset is like a child smashing a pack of crayons into God’s face.

I don't have anything that dramatic as far as a performance goes. I've never participated in a show that ended in a fight in my memory.

I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.

The resolved mind hath no cares.

The unexpected always happens.

I do not love "good" more than I love "bad." Hitler went to heaven. When you understand this, you will understand God.

Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.