A prudent person profits from personal experience a wise one from the experience of others.

A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.

I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.

Life happens with or without our permission.

That's what happens when you love someone... you notice and notice and notice.

The money matters. And secret money is corrupting, secret money is dangerous, secret money leads to scandal.

The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.

I didn't understand that when you make love, you actually do MAKE love. Stir things. Affect each other. The breath that escapes from me is dazzled. He breathes it in with a gasp.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.

I feel now I can take my talent through the roof.