Delicacy in woman is strength.

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.

Mentors change lives, but students change mentors’ lives more.

Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness

I say more power to [Madonna], though I don't know how much more power is out there.

Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.

I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect womens access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.

The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set

These pretzels are making me thirsty!

Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle.

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.