Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportional to the quantity of coffee he drank.

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.

Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own.

We're all human no matter what.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the w

Life is mean! Don't lose your humour jacket. You'll really need it.

When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty.

Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.

Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.