At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

I felt the same way the world felt about Kurtis

Reo Malone - "You can't put the genie back in the bottle.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

I'm really looking forward to getting back and winning some matches but I'm not thinking about the U.S. Open yet, just getting through my first match.

American society has gone completely into denial.

My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.

One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.