Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil.

He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.

Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation.