A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

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.

A product is supposed to be what you are intentionally producing with your life at least every month.

You're not going to die, " I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

all children are required to attend School, which is like a party to which everyone forgot to bring punch, or hats, or fiddles, and none of the games have good prizes.

What we are today doesn't show what we were yesterday. After all, the only thing unchangeable about this world is the constant change

I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

As attorney general, Ive had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.

If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.

I'm sure if you could survey the unborn they would prefer the chance for life over the options of solar power.

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression