An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

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.

Your soul is always trying to guide you in your true life direction towards your highest good and greatest happiness.

If you see it in Strunk and White it's so.

Maturity means being able to tolerate, on all sorts of planes, uncertainty and not knowing.

Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

Gorgeous day here in Chicago. Sure is better than Canada.

It's the worst feeling when you come home alone late at night and think the stranger sitting on your couch is a pile of clothes.

I'm Michael Schumacher. I don't need to test my driving ability.

I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.