A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

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.

May I never dishonour the name of God.

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.

That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to do is they're going to wipe out half a dozen people one of these days, and that will be the end of it.

I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.

Vampires can live a very long time, theoretically forever, which means their idea of getting down to business can be damn leisurely.

Ahimsa is the strongest force known.

I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way.

The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart.