Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

May all humankind find the grace of goodwill.

There is a Pirate in each of us"!

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but it impairs what it would improve.

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

We certainly don't yet know all the answers. But the universe is about to be pried open.

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

I told you all I was going to be No. 1, and I did just that.

Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them or perhaps slept in their nests.