Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

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.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

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.

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of a life.

Existence came from God; death came by Adam; and immortality and eternal life come through Christ.

It was strange at times. We had to make out so much that we kind of got over it. It was really awkward.

I tried to explain as much as I could," Poppet says. "I think I made an analogy about cake." "Well, that must have worked," Widget says. "Who doesn't like a good cake analogy?

Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.

The Television is the monster of hell.

Every nation at the end of the day must fend for itself. Sometimes, it needs help. And Ukraine deserves all the help in the world.

Don't bother with New Year's resolutions if you don't have the discipline to put a plan in place to actually achieve them.

Everything changes, money rules. In my era, if you were successful, you were going to make money, but you never worried about it.

I am one of those people who isn’t great at anything, but I’m pretty good at most things.