He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

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.

Financial illiteracy is like being in a rain storm and trying to jump in between the raindrops... eventually it all catches you at the same time.

When you unlock your pleasure, you unlock your power. And that can change anything..." -Sheerah, Donny and Ursula Save the World.

Little flowers get more attention than the big mountains simply because they emit love around themselves!

Business is really more agreeable than pleasure it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

In nature nothing exists alone.

I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.

Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em; / Thought is free.