Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

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.

So maybe today you have a bad day. Tomorrow another one. But the day after tomorrow will be the worst, if you don´t get up and do something with your life.

Don't take things for granted.

I guess high verbal skills are highest in my list of necessary qualifications for a man - for anyone actually. I like to talk. And I don't necessarily move far, but I move fast.

My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.

Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, "I cannot live spontaneously. ".

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.